Automatic filling-replenishing loom.



No. 783,695. PATBNTED FEB. 28, 1905. 0. JANELLE AUTOMATIC FILLING REPLENISHING LOOM.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 7, 1904 tie. 783,695.

niTnn STaTEs Patented Lbeoruary' 2%, 1905.

PATENT tl rripia.

OSCAR JANELLE, OF MANCHESTER, NEW lilAhllPSlilRE, ASSlGNOH OF ONE-THIRD TO HARRY EVERETT PARKER, ()li h IANClll liiTllER, Nlli V HAMPSHIRE.

MUTOWIATM) FILLlNG-WHEFLENlSP-HMGT lhUUllll" SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 783,695, dated February 28, 1905.

Application filed November 7,1904. Serial No. 231,708.

To all whom it nut l con/corn.-

Be it known that LOsoAR J AN nLLaa citizen of the United States, residing at Manchester, county of Hillsboro, State of New Hampshire, have invented an Improvement in Automatic Filling-Replenishing Looms, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like characters on the drawings representing like parts.

lin the Northrop type ol automatic loom means are provided to automatically insert a fresh supply of filling in the running shuttle whenever necessary, a reserve supply of lilling-carriers being held in a feeder to be transferred therefrom one by one to the shuttle, as may be required. Such type of loom is shown and described. in United States Patent No. 529, 94.0. The head of the iilling-carrier is provided with a series of annular metallic projections or rings adapted to enter upright grooves or recesses in holding-jaws carried by the shuttle to lirmly grasp the head of and retain the filling-carrierin proper operative position in the opening extended through the shuttle from top to bottom. The transfer of a filling-carrier from the feeder to the shuttle is effected with great rapidity. almost instantaneously, in fact, and the speed of the filling-carrier during its transfer is necessarily high, so that if it impinges in'lpro 'ierl y upon any part of the loom greater or less damage will result. In actual practice it has been found that at times the ringed head of the incoming filling-carrier will impinge upon and scrape over the leading side wall of the shuttle, splintering or breaking ofl more or less of the wood and in a short time rendering the shuttle worthless. This damage may result from some slight maladjustment of parts,1rom slight variations in the stroke of the lay, or from wear of different parts of the apparatus. The damage to the shuttle is not alate the same l have discovered that if the incoming lilling-carri or be very sl ight-l yd eilected toward the back of the loom just as it is about to enter the shuttleopening it cannot strike the leading side wall thereof, but will, without possibility of damage, be inserted in the holding means carried by the shuttle. The shuttle-wall is thus guarded or protected from impingement by the incoming liHing-carrier, and the damage hereinbelori-idescribed is obviated.

My present invention accordingly has for its object the productimi of means, in an automatic l'illingreplenishing loom oi" the type referred to, to prevent impingei'nent oi an incoming iillingcarrier upon the side wall of the running shuttle at the time of transfer.

The various novel features of my invention will be fully described in the subjoincd specification and particularly pointed out in the following claims.

Figure 1 of the drawings XQpI'OSGHlJS in trans- Verse section a sufiicient portion 01 an automatic filling-replenishing loom to be understood, with one embodiment of my present invention applied thereto,the section being taken through the filling-feeder with the replenishing mechanism in normal position. Fig. 2 is a similar view of only a portion of the apparatus shown in Fig. l, but at the instant when the incoming filling-carrier is just about to be inserted in the holding means mounted on the shuttle; and Fig. 3) is adetail oi theinner side of the transt'errer, to be referred to.

The lay A", having a shuttle-box. B, the automatically selt'-threading shuttle :5, having spring-liiolding jaws 1, Fig. 2, to el'igage and all substantially as in United States Patent No. 664,790, dated December 25, 1900.

The means for effecting intermittent rotation of the filling-feeder, to present one after another of the filling-earriers into position to be transferred, and the means to operate the transferrer at the desired times to insert fresh filling in the running shuttle form no part of my invention and are or may be of wellknown construction.

The endmost filling-carrier of the series in the feeder rests against a fixed abutment b secured to or forming a part of the stand A and such abutment forms one side of a throat through which the filling-carrier passes as it is transferred.

As is well known to those familiar with the practical operation of automatic filling-replenishing looms, the transferrer completes its transferring movementwhile the lay is completing its forward beat, the relative position of the parts being shown in Fig. 2 just as the incoming or fresh filling-carrier is engaging the one already in the shuttle and before either transferrer or lay has completed the movement referred to. As the filling-carrier passes from the lower end of the abutment b there is sometimes a tendency for its ringed head to impinge upon the leading side wall of the shuttle, the force of the blow splintering or grinding the wood as the filling-carrier is forced into the holding-jaws 1.. Sometimes the wear is gradual, a groove being worn in the side wall, and at other times there is a serious smash at the first impact; but sooner or later the shuttle is ruined. In accordance with the present embodiment of my invention I have provided means to protect or guard the side wall of the shuttle from such impingement of the filling-carrier. To this end Isecure a flat plate 4 to the stand, beneath the abutment V, with its rear edge 5 projecting rearward a slight distance beyond the face of the abutment, as clearly 'shown in Fig. 1. The guard-plate lies in the path of the ringed head of the filling-carrier, and as it passes over the projecting edge 5 it is slightly de-' flected rearwardly. WVhile the deflection is very slight, it is suflicient to preventthe rings on the head from coming into contact with the side wall of the shuttle, and the deflection is of such short duration that by the time the guard is passed the shuttle has been moved forward far enough for the filling-carrier to immediately enter between the holding-jaws. I have indicated the mass of filling by dotted lines on the incoming filling-carrier, Fig. 2, inorder to clearly show the engagement of its head with the edge 5 of the guard.

IVith a loom having ashuttle guard or protector such as described, the injury to either shuttle or filling-carriers, such as hereinbefore described, is completely obviated, as the shuttle-wall cannot be hit by the fillingcarrier even when there is considerable looseness or lost motion in the various parts of the apparatus.

In order to prevent any longitudinal movement of the filling-carrier when it engages the guard, I may secure a stop 6 to the inner face of the transferrer-head f", as shown in Fig. 3, the lower edge of the stop being adapted to project behind the endmost ring on the head of the filling-carrier.

My invention is not restricted to-the precise construction and arrangement herein shown and described, as the same may be modified or varied in different particulars by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention.

Having fullydescribed my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In an organized loom, a shuttle provided with means to engage and hold a filling-carrier, and mechanism to automatically insert a filling-carrier into said means, combined with means to prevent impingement of an incoming filling-carrier upon the leading side wall of the shuttle at the time of transfer.

2. In an organized loom, a shuttle provided with means to engage and hold a filling-carrier, and mechanism to automatically insert a filling-carrier into said means, combined with means to deflect an incoming filling-carrier rearwardly away from the leading side wall of the shuttle at the time of transfer.

3. In an organized loom provided with an intermittingly-movable feeder adapted to contain a plurality of filling-carriers, and a transferrer to remove them singly from the feeder and insert them in the running-shuttle, of means to protect or guard the leading side wall of the shuttle from impingement by the incoming filling-carrier.

4:. In an organized loom provided with an intermittingly-movable feeder adapted to contain a plurality of filling-carriers, a lay provided with a shuttle-box, a shuttle provided with means to engage and hold a filling-carrier, and a rocking transferrer to convey a filling-carrier from the feeder to the shuttle and insert it in the holding means as the lay beats up, combined with means to engage the incoming filling-carrier and deflect it rearward away from the leading side wall of the shuttle.

5. In an organized loom provided with an intermittingly-movable feeder adapted to contain a plurality of filling-carriers, a fixed abutment against which the endmost filling-carrier in the feeder rests, and a transferrer to convey filling-carriers one by one from the feeder to the running shuttle, of a shuttleguard mounted on the lower end of and projecting beyond the face of the abutment, to deflect the incoming filling-earri er rearwardly away from the leading side wall of the shuttle.

6. In an organized loom provided with an intcrmittingly-movable feeder adapted to contain a plurality of filling-earriers, a shuttle provided With means to engage and hold a filling-carrier, and 2t transferrer to convey filling-carriers singly from the feeder to the holding means in the shuttle, combined with a fixedly-mounted guard adapted to project over the lending sidewall of the shuttle at the time of transfer and prevent impingement thereon of the incoming filling-carrier.

7. In an organized loom provided with an inte1'mittingly-movable feeder adapted to contain it plurality of fillingcarriers, at shuttle provided With means to engage and hold a lilling-carrielg and a transferrer to convey lill1ng'c:u'r1ere singly from the feeder t0 the scribing witnesses.

OSCAR JANELLE. Witnesses: JAMES EDMOND,

JAMES C. Mmmocn. 

